Society for Healthcare Epidemiology (SHEA)
This toolkit can help hospital infection prevention programs implement a decolonization protocol that was found to reduce bloodstream infections by more than 30 percent in adult inpatients who were not in intensive care units (ICUs) and who had
The General Abstraction Guidelines explain the different sections of the data element definitions and provide direction for common questions and issues that arise in medical record abstraction.
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This tool can: • Provide a framework for change in condition communication when signs and symptoms of UTIs are identified. • Prepare for change in communication conversations. • Be modified to include facility specific prompts or UTI prevention strategies. (Alliant Health
Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)